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C-2MetrO THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Tuesday, April 16, 1991 7 Allen Howard 4 XT TTnfr- 1 pilil 7 -V UC student recognized nationally Sharon Davis never considered engineering as a career, but she's glad her teachers and counselors did. "I didn't even know what I was getting into when I came to the University of Cincinnati," said Davis, of Ashland, Ohio. Last month, Davis, a junior in the materials science division of the UC College of Engineering, was named the 1991 i Distinguished Fellow, the highest scholarship award presented by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). The $2,500 award is based on academic performance, as well as service to the community and to NSBE, an engineer TUESDAY MONITOR DANCE THEATER OF HARLEM opens a two-day stand at the Taft Theatre, today at 7:30 p.m. 621-1110.

ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT Gary Shep-ard, who has covered the Persian Gulf war, student rebellion in China, the Exxon oil spill and other major news stories, speaks at 8 p.m. in the Caroline Scott Harrision Room at Shriver Center on the campus of Miami University. 529-7592. RECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES, a program exploring methods for resolving malpractice complaints, will be presented by the Academy of Medicine and the Cincinnati Bar Association at 6 p.m. at the Academy of Medicine, 322 Broadway.

421-7010. COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR ACTION sponsor a "ratepayers hearing" on proposed electric rate hikes at 7 p.m. at St. Boniface School, Chase and Pitts streets, Northside. 541-2709.

A CANADIAN FESTIVAL of Songwriters welcomes James Keelaghan, Connie Kaldon and and Stephen Fearing, among others, at 8 p.m. at Kresge Auditorium, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine. 531-1299. COMPOSER HAROLD BLUMENFELD performs at a graduate music forum at 1 p.m. in the Baur Room at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

556-4183. INSIDE FILE Delaying the inevitable The Cincinnati EnquirerJim Callaway PAW POWER: Bruno, a 2-year-old German shepherd, gives owner Joe Bonham a free ride on his roller skates Monday afternoon in the parking lot of Kroger's on Winton Road in Finneytown. Bonham, 18, of Finneytown, said he and Bruno go on 2-mile cruises when the weather is nice. Sharon Davis Jury selection begins in suit charging 12 guards in death He's the city's financial wizard crafting $224 million budgets and monitoring such number-crunching details as how much money is coming into the city's coffers and how much is going out. So what was Kevin Shepard, head of the city's Research, Evaluation and Budget Office, doing all weekend? Like scores of other Tristaters, Sheoard Butler police seek hit-and-run driver Butler County sheriff's deputies on Monday were continuing their search for the driver of an automobile that struck a Morgan Township woman Saturday, knocking her into the path of two oncoming vehicles.

Cari Van Winkle, 22, of the 1700 block of Bell Road was pronounced dead at the scene. Sheriff Richard Holzberger said Van Winkle, the mother of two children, was hit about 2:50 a.m. while walking along Ohio 126 (Cincinnati-Brookville Road) near Okeana. COURTS Corryville man faces 6 delinquency counts A 28-year-old Corryville man will stand trial on six counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor in connection with taking a 14-year-old runaway into his home. Paul D.

Greisser of the 200 block of East University Avenue pleaded not guilty to the charges in Hamilton County Juvenile Court on Monday. He is free on bond. Greisser, who also faces drug and bad-check charges in municipal court, is to appear for trial April 23 on the delinquency charges. The 14-year-old boy told police he was the subject of two satanic rituals and pornography at Greisser's home. Man pleads not guilty to sex-offense charges Kevin Shepard armed with a calculator and a pile of IRS documents tackled his tax return, racing to get it mailed before Monday's midnight deadline.

"Nothing like the last minute," said Shepard, who has earned city government awards for his thorough budgets always delivered to city council on time. But it was not procrastination that forced Shepard to do his taxes on deadline. "Just a little cash analysis," the budget director said. "I knew I was going to owe Uncle Sam, so it made more sense for me to hold on to the money as long as I could instead of handing it over." Reporter: Richard Green CENSUS UPDATE Noise-reduction plan approved The airport board Monday passed a resolution aimed at reducing noise from planes taking off over the southwest corner of the Greater Cincinnati International Airport. The resolution will be reviewed April 24 by the volunteer Noise Abatement Committee, which has been studying the problem, then go to the Federal Aviation Administration for final approval, said Paul Michels, chairman of the Kenton County Airport Board.

Planes taking off from Runway 18-Right are required to turn at certain angles, which guarantees that all will fly over the same set of homes. Monday's proposal would allow some planes to take off without banking, which means they would pass over fewer homes, Michels said. Such straight-line departures would be allowed only when no other plane is departing from the nearby Runway 18-Left. The resolution would allow the airport to test different paths, he said. The Glens of Oak Brook Homeowners Association has not seen the resolution yet, said John Bales, spokesman for the group.

"But it's the first indication that the airport is willing to talk about this problem in a serious manner," he said. ing society for minority students. Davis was selected from among several thousand students competing nationwide. "Receiving the scholarship was quite a surprise to me. It definitely serves as a motivator for me, and I hope the same thing for other black students," Davis said.

'A proven student leader' Her achievement is based on her willingness to apply herself and her ability to make use of the organizations offering help, both on and off campus. "She is the ideal type of minority student we need," said Edward Prather, director of the engineering school's minority affairs office. "She has proven to be a student leader in her work with NSBE and has done quite well academically because her department holds her in high regard." As a black student in an engineering program, Davis is a rarity. Prather, who came to UC in 1988 to run a program to recruit minority engineering students, said it is difficult to attract black students because most do not take enough math or science courses in high school. But the number of students is growing at UC.

In 1988, there were 14 black and Hispanic students in the engineering school. There are now 84. A desire to give back Davis has maintained a 3.3 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale. She broadened her prospective on the engineering field by becoming active in NSBE. She was national chairwoman for the NSBE Conference in 1989 and its regional communications director in 1990.

She is now president of the NSBE chapter at UC. Davis has been active in the university's summer enrichment program, which is designed to reach minority high school students and direct them toward college careers. This program is important to Davis because she began planning her college career through a similar outreach program, suggested to her by teachers and counselors. "When I attended a College Night program at UC as a high school senior, I learned then about getting into engineering and being able to co-op (work with a local company)," she said. Co-op job helped shape future Davis has worked for three years in the materials laboratory at General Electric Co.

She said the work at GE helped her switch her major from electrical to materials science engineering. She said her plans are to attend graduate school and eventually teach at the university level because her main interest is helping students set their goals on a career in engineering. "When I came here, I couldn't even picture myself graduating or even making it to be a sophomore," Davis said. Jury selection began Monday in U.S. District Court for 12 guards sued over the death of Jimmy J.

Haynes at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in 1984. The suit, filed by volunteer lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union, claims the handcuffed and shackled inmate was the victim of "enforcers" who regularly use excessive force against prisoners at the Lucasville prison. Haynes' mother, Edna Haynes of Freeman Avenue in the West End, is seeking $750,000 compensatory damages plus punitive damages to be set by jurors in Judge Herman Weber's court. Haynes said her emotionally disturbed son became violent when guards moved him from an infirmary cell to another cell nearby. "Haynes was thrown or wrestled to the floor, hit, kicked, clubbed, choke-held, knee-jumped and otherwise physically abused," and a guard put one foot and at least half his weight on Haynes' neck, the lawsuit says.

That was the fatal injury, the suit says. Haynes, 25, died in the infirmary hours later on Feb. 9, 1984. POLICE Clermont man accused of making racial slurs A 22-year-old Pierce Township man was jailed Monday after being charged Saturday with ethnic intimidation. According to a police report, David R.

Kimmerly of the 3800 block of Banks Road, was arrested after he made "racial comments and insulting remarks that led to an 11-person fight" at a party in Anderson Township on Saturday night. Judge Jack Rosen of Hamilton County Municipal Court set bail for Kimmerly on Monday at $10,000 for the felony charge. Apartment searched for clues in rape case A 34-year-old woman told police she was kidnapped April 8 from a downtown Cincinnati parking garage, beaten and raped, according to a search warrant filed Saturday with the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts. The woman said she was repeatedly beaten and raped in a Walnut A look at who we are in LOCKLAND Population: 1990: 9,990 1980: 9,106 Change: 884 1990 By race 1980 1990 By age 1980 18 or older 18 or older White White Other Black Other .6 24.5 Black 22.3 Under 18 Under 18 'Percents may not total 1 00 due to rounding and non-responses Source: U.S. Census Bureau A Covington man indicted on 30 counts of sexual abuse pleaded not guilty Monday.

William T. Edwards, 32, appeared in Kenton County Circuit Court in Covington. Judge Doug Edwards Hills apartment complex between 5:30 and 11 p.m., the warrant said. Police confiscated a piece of a mattress, a bedsheet and clothing from the apartment, the warrant said. A 28-year-old male lives in the apartment police searched April 10.

Specialist Charles Beaver of the Cincinnati Police Division's personal crimes unit, who requested the search warrant, was not available for comment Monday. LOTTERIES OHIO Pick 3: 0 5 5 Pick 4: 2 2 9 3 Cards: KV 34 A INDIANA Daily 3: 4 1 5 Daily 4: 6 12 9 KENTUCKY Kentucky Cash: 9 4 5 (Drawings of April 15, 1991) las Stephens set a trial for July 30. Edwards was indicted March 28 on charges of sodomy, sexual abuse and using minors in a sexual performance. The indictment says the victims were 8 to 14 years old. News spots OHIO rtwttmt! COlUHbUS IND.

forehead be extended to the latest attack. Rewards to be paid for county cleanup 3MOREHEAD, A self-described garbage vigilante is offering $1,400, bicycles and stereos to residents who help clean up Rowan County. The winners will receive their awards Monday, which is Earth Day, said Edith Littleton, the county's solid-waste coordinator, who has found 61 illegal dumps in the county. The cleanup contest began Feb. 1 when Littleton offered $500 to the parent-teacher organization from the school district that was cleaned up best.

Group seeks items for Quayle exhibit Numbers on each item correspond to locations noted on the map. State worker faces charges of stealing 1 COLUMBUS, Ohio: An Ohio Department of Health employee has been arrested on charges of embezzling as much as $400,000, the State Highway Patrol said Monday. Frank H. Burge, supervisor of the department's Hospital Claims Unit, is accused of using a fraudulent bank account to process checks payable to the state for payments to hospitals for indigent health care, the patrol said. The patrol said in a news release that $400,000 was processed through the bank account in the past 12 months, and that Burge was the only person authorized to use the account.

Burge, 46, of Galloway, Ohio, was tempted abortion-clinic firebombing, and abortion-rights forces renewed a reward offer for information leading to the conviction of those responsible. The third attack against a Columbus abortion clinic since February came Sunday evening. Fire officials said someone threw Molotov cocktails at the Founder's Women's Health Center on the city's east side at about 5 p.m. No damage was reported and no one was inside the building at the time, fire Battalion Chief William Hanf said Sunday. Tim Welsh, administrator of the Columbus-based Right to Life-Ohio, denounced the bombing Monday.

"Right to Life recognizes and seeks protection of human life. This poses a threat to human life," Welsh said. Barbara Maurer, secretary of Freedom of Choice-Ohio, a coalition of Ohio abortion-rights groups, said a standing offer of a $1,000 reward posted for the February bombings probably will Indiana's Fourth Congressional District to include in an exhibit devoted to Vice President Dan Quayle. The exhibit is organized by the Dan Quayle Commemorative Foundation, a non-partisan, community-based group dedicated to the preservation of the vice president's Huntington and Indiana roots. Quayle lived in Huntington from 1951 to 1955, when the family moved to Phoenix.

In 1963, the family returned to Huntington, and Quayle graduated from Huntington High School in 1965. He and his wife, Marilyn, returned to Huntington after both graduated from law school in 1974. Quayle was elected Indiana's Fourth District representative in 1976. The exhibit will be May 11-20 at the Huntington County Public Library. Also, a historical marker will be unveiled May 10 at the Huntington County Courthouse site where George Bush and Quayle launched the 1988 presidential campaign, Schenkel said.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS arrested Friday at his office. Both sides decry attack on clinic COLUMBUS, Ohio: Anti-abortion HUNTINGTON, Organizers 2 4 activists Monday denounced an at are searching for memorabilia in.